For nearly two hours, Michael Watkins lay doubled-over in agony on the floor of his Marion County Jail cell, begging for help from his jailers, according to witnesses and family members.
“The inmates told us that they all started beating on the bars and screaming for their jailers,” said Watkins’ sister Elisabeth Feltz. “When they finally came, they said, ‘Are you going to let this man lay here and die before you take him out?’”
Watkins, 37, eventually was taken to AdventHealth Ocala Hospital, where he died on Jan. 31, 2021, after undergoing emergency surgery for an obstructed bowel…